My son is doing the paperwork for a NH trophy. If its the largest bluegill entered this year he will get official recognition & a patch I think. As his fish weighs 20+% more than last years winner I think he's got a shot at it. We had to get an official, certified scale, weight and the Wineing Butcher helped us out with weighing it and giving us the print out, 1.43 pounds!
Either way a NH F&G biologist will render a species identification from our measurement snapshot. It does have a yellowish throat so maybe they have bluegill subdivisions but its a 'gill.

It's a blue gill. Anybody eat a crappie? The boys down south say there the best fresh water fish.

Are outstanding. IMHO the only superior freshwater white fish is the walleye. In school in S. Illinois there was one lake I found with spring shoreline access to fryer size fish, 8" to 10". Wonderful break from standard college diet.

My son is doing the paperwork for a NH trophy. If its the largest bluegill entered this year he will get official recognition & a patch I think. As his fish weighs 20+% more than last years winner I think he's got a shot at it. We had to get an official, certified scale, weight and the Wineing Butcher helped us out with weighing it and giving us the print out, 1.43 pounds!
Either way a NH F&G biologist will render a species identification from our measurement snapshot. It does have a yellowish throat so maybe they have bluegill subdivisions but its a 'gill.

My son just got a letter from F&G telling him his Bluegill (see photo in this thread) was the largest one registered last year in the state. 11.00", 1.43 lbs.
He will be getting a certificate for this as well.